Improvement in



STEPHEN MEAD.

Improvement in Apple Corers and Cutters No. 124,368. V V Patenfed March5. 1872,

jni/ewlor PATENT QFFICE.

STEPHEN MEAD, OF FORT'BRANGH, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPLE-CORERS AND CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,368, dated March 5,1872; antedated March 4, 1872.

I, STEPHEN MEAD, of Fort Branch, Gibson county, Indiana, have inventedan Improved AppleCorer and Cutter, of which the following is aspecification, in the drawing making part of which- Figure 1 is a sideelevation, and Fig. 2 a top view of the cutter.

This invention relates to a vertical tube havin g radial horizontalblades extending outward from its top, and said blades being inclosedwithin a ring concentric with said tube, in combin ation with an elasticarm, arranged for pressin g apples down upon said tube and blades forthe purpose of coring and quartering the same.

Referring to the drawing, a is the aforesaid vertical tube, the samebeing attached at its lower end to a foundation, b, through which ismade a hole continuous with the bore of the tube a. The top of the tubehas a cutting edge. The radial blades 0 have also cutting edges. Theconcentric ring (I, to which theouter ends of the blades 0 are attached,strengthens the same and prevents them from bending. Posts 0, stepped inthe foundation 1) at opposite sides of the ring d, support the latter.Upon the foundation b, near one end of the same, is block f secured,having a sloping top, to which the elastic arm 1 is fastened, throughwhich a pin, h, is passed directly above the tube a. If an apple bestuck upon this pin, when the arm g is pressed down, the core is cut outand received within the tube a, whence it is voided through the orificein the foundation 1). At the same time the apple is quartered by theblades 0.

I claim as myinvention- The combination of the tube a, blades 0, ring(1, posts 0, elastic arm 9, bloekf, and foundation b, as specified.

STEPHEN MEAD.

YVitnesses:

LowIs GRIM, J. M. FOSTER.

